The Odyssey draws IMAX demand as Nolan's epic opens
There is a lot to say about the Nolan Odyssey movie. But one point that I think has not been emphasized enough is: this is a film about living in LA, as Nolan, my erstwhile British compatriot and age mate, has done for years. I gather it’s a strange place.
EMILY WILSON671Calyoso: the very lovely therapist, doles out great psychiatric drugs, and you may stay in treatment for many years. Who knows which memories of your trauma are real?
Padre Florecita173I actually used to explain LA traffic to people as "It's like a city composed of islands, and the cars are boats. When the current and the wind is against you, you simply cannot get there from here."
French Tiktoker saying "burger"94As an angeleno I have to contest this reading. Nolan's Odyssey can't be about LA, there's too much rain in it.
paulf77577.cryptoanarchy.network53I need The LA Odyssey directed by Boots Riley
Goat In The Garden34When he gazed up at the horse, recalling all the horrors that came after the ruse, I whispered to my partner - "the horse is tRump!"
Will O'Minder26Polyphemus is a construction project on I-5.
Emily Gorcenski54it is absolutely NOT FAIR that not only is she smart and pretty and has cool tattoos but my dear friends she is also a poster. smdh some people just have it all.
Pamela Dean28I'm tolerably familiar with the Odyssey (the poem) but much less so with LA; however, this thread cracked me up repeatedly.
Paul Duane 🥔25This is true, I went to a weed store in Downtown LA and the guy there wouldn't let me leave, blocked the door with a huge stone & tried to eat my mate
Peter Labuza19What is the Silver Lake Trader Joe’s parking lot if not a whirlpool containing Charybdis?
Michael Schulman8The Siren song of overpriced smoothies at Erewhon...
aaron boothby 3if I'm getting shipwrecked I hope it's at the house of pies
Roach 🐎🪳🐝3@bookish-blood.bsky.social one for you xD
Ian Walker3As a Brit in LA who thinks - how the fuck is this strange place my ‘home ’- about once every 10 minutes, I have a lot of sympathy for this critical take
Cameron D. Campbell 康文林3Odysseus had a lunch in San Bernadino and then upset a god who put a curse on him that prevents him from using GPS, mobile phone, or any freeway, so he wanders aimlessly for days until he finds a discarded 30 year old Thomas Guide, and he sets out to return to Santa Monica by SURFACE STREETS.
Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱2as a former LA resident, *oh the accuracy!* 😂
The Odyssey has the potential to be a culture war turning point loss for the Right partially because I really don’t think Christopher Nolan has any desire to be a ‘woke’ director. He literally just wanted to make a massive movie with the best actors he could find
Matthew Downhour 145Some of them are Black & one is trans and truly I don’t think he was making a statement because I don’t think he cares for much discourse beyond his films. But, a) he got attacked for being functionally colorblind (the thing the right always claims is better than being race conscious)
Daryl Sng19Also as a central message "Western civilisation is good, but these warmongering chuds keep trying to bring it down" might be even more devastating message for them than simply a pure 'woke' movie (whatever that might mean)
Only Half Joshing17Definitely feels like if 300 was the start of the fascist surge tide then Nolan’s Odyssey marks its ebb.
socalbookish.bsky.social8I just think the rw doesn't have the juice anymore
arcanealchemist.bsky.social3Christopher Nolan has consistently been criticized (and I believe rightly so) for not being woke enough!! truly this is a massive case of friendly fire where a rich guy who enjoys the status quo is catching strays from a rabid billionaire and his weirdo cult of media executives
Brían Johnston3All his movies are political…he’s a good person and that always comes through…why respond/dignify/define yourself to morons?!
Ben K.12Have they ever won a culture war fight?
The Vegapunk of Hyenas11It should be noted Nolan is infamous for his refusal to predetermine who he wants his cast to be Whatever you think of the choices, him and the casting director really did decide they were the best ones
Lord Piss11nolan is famously conservative! the dark knight is a pro-patriot act allegory. the mere sight of brown skin in a movie turns them into shrieking baboons
Fr Chase 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁4I think the chud class, especially the YouTube video essayists among them, are used to clowning on slop Disney productions. But that ain't Christopher Nolan
Invertible Peasant2... if he *was* trying to make a huge issue about this, she probably would have been in the movie for more than ten minutes. =/
Another Cinna2Artists make art because they have a profound relationship with the sources & materials & want to open them up to the world. Can be selfish; may well be generous. Fascists make art because they have a profound relationship with themselves and want to shape the world in their own image. Are selfish.
I’m pretty sure Director Christopher Nolan doesn’t give two shits that white supremacists and Nazis like Musk and Megyn Kelly hate his brilliant film ‘The Odyssey.’ He’s laughing all the way to the bank.
Squeaquy7I’m sure he’s glad they hate it. Their racist whining is just generating publicity for his film and everyone who sees it is loving it.
outspoken1net.bsky.social5I know Nolan does this for income, but he also does for art- his vision of the story with intertwined lessons. The movies success is his middle finger to the racists and xenophobes.
terrapin420.bsky.social2No one with a soul cares what either of those POS say or believe about anything
Iago Grimaldo2These folks look for shit to get enraged about. Don't they ever get tired?
Dona Flaca2Megyn Kelly hates everyone including herself. She’s disgustingly racist. That’s. Who. she. is.
Fluffula1Yep the film they want would be awful too like troy
what a great article — I had no idea about any of this. There are only 25 IMAX 70mm theaters in all of America!! They can’t make new IMAX projectors because they don’t have the plans anymore! They had to track down broken ones ahead of “The Odyssey” and fix them!! variety.com/2026/film/ne...
Adam Sternbergh33some people wondering why they can't just take apart an existing camera and reverse-engineer and manufacture new ones that way. good question! because the machines to make the parts required also no longer exist! and very few of the people who knew how it all worked together are still around either
Giant Space Ants6If there are existing operational units, how can they not figure this out by just taking one apart to see what's inside and how everything fits together? Seems like more of a profitability problem than an engineering one
Premium Steve5“They don’t have the plans” doesn’t make a ton of sense when working ones exist Surely they could simply disassemble one and solve this mystery, unless they’re also unable to put it back together
C4I’ve seen so much “why is there one in Chattanooga” and like, because aquarium. That screen primarily shows “The Wonders of Our Oceans” or whatever every hour.
onekade4Coolidge Corner Cinema in Brookline is our local! The best
Chris Otto (Papergreat)2Saw One Battle After Another on IMAX 70mm here in Phoenix area. It was stunning.
Managed to find tickets to an Imax 70mm showing of the Odyssey for two weeks time - early afternoon on a weekday with restricted view. But still like getting a ticket to the fucking chocolate factory.
Stephen9I'm waiting till it is on netflix so I can watch it on my phone as Nolan intended.
Liz Anderson4This and getting tickets to see the Bayeux Tapestry has nearly broken me.
mdmc24.bsky.social3I’m just back from watching it in a regular cinema setting. It was great and the storytelling was a triumph. Yes, the scale of it all was a feature, and I’m sure Imax will really capture that, but it’s the storytelling that is the centrepiece that makes this movie.
Mike Friedman3Come to New Orleans. You can buy tickets for today. (Of course we're about to get hit by Tropical Storm Bertha but it's not a big deal....)
Paul3Are you a hundred percent certain it's not in Bradford?
Mark O’Neill 🐻2You do realise what a "restricted view" means? Nemo
Watching the Odyssey the way Christopher Nolan intended: on the back wall in Plato’s Cave
As a certified Nolan hater I regret to inform you the ODUSSY is bussin. boxd.it/fnQe7h
Abe Goldfarb6It whips so hard. The entire third act is just a daisy chain of payoffs. Relentless.
MadameNostalgic✨Tanya2I'm seeing it tonight. I'm actually MORE excited knowing how you feel about Nolan. lol
Martin O'Leary1Stop making me want to see it, everyone! (I’m totally seeing it next week. Sigh…)
Henry T. Casey1It’s my fourth favorite behind dark knight, prestige, and memento
BruceWayneBrady1I finished the audiobook a few hours before I saw it. And the things in the movie were better images than I'd imagined while listening to it. That man made parts of that a horror movie. Three hours has never been more engaging for me.
blitzcrg1> I regret to inform you the ODUSSY is bussin. ...how could you do this?
One additional thought re Odyssey. Between what he did with Oppenheimer and what he has now down with the Odyssey, it’s deeply encouraging to see Nolan mature away from cutesy linear convolutions and toward the deeper ethics and lessons that undergird these stories. He’s going all the way.
Screamer Jim15It’s very nice to see his storytelling method cohere in service to The Lesson, rather than distracting from or avoiding it altogether
Bathroom Barry2This was my thought coming out of the theater
Mark Paul Oleksiw1I beleive Nolan is using his built up goodwill to make movies on a spiritual level. I look forward to his next creation.
kaitlin1so much i wanna say in agreement but something i really liked is how the calypso stuff feels like such a matured version of leo's arc in inception. a man as desperate to forget his sins as he is to find his way home, etc.
Weekday matinees are the best. Most people are there to watch the movie and it will generally be 80% empty. I saw THE ODYSSEY on opening day in 70mm at 11 am and I’d say it was 1/3 full. And I bought my ticket that morning.
Jesse Hawken16Last week I went to a mid afternoon screening of OBSESSION which had been playing for over 2 months and there might have been 40 of us and we were all in the palm of the movie’s hand, must have been amazing to see in a packed theatre
Doug Joubert1i’m a matinee person myself and it’s so nice to have the theater to yourself. Unless I’m in the mood for something with audience participation and then I go to AMC not @alamodrafthouse.bsky.social
andimalloutofbubblegum1Saw it on Tuesday at 10 AM. Mostly full when I booked it a day before.
#NovaScotia Only 9 Canadian cities can show you The Odyssey as it was filmed. Halifax is one Most theatres worldwide can't show the Christopher Nolan epic in its original 70-mm Imax format www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
David Lewis4Although this is super cool, and I didn’t know Halifax had such a projector, wouldn’t digital projection look essentially the same?
Mirth2The Ontario Science Centre has an IMAX theatre. But Ford closed the ENTIRE Science Centre. Over a small roof damage that's not in the public area Demand Ford re-open the OSC! @saveosc.bsky.social #onpoli #toronto #science #Odyssey
Jeannette G1Family bought tickets months ago to see it in 70mm IMAX in T.O. opening weekend.
